Rainfall update
Recent rainfall station totals
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About these data, maps and tables
- Maps and tables use real-time rainfall data, and limited quality control has been performed
- Some stations occasionally report multi-day accumulations, which may show up as high daily, weekly or month-to-date totals.
- Daily data are updated at and available around .
- Weekly data are updated at AEDT each day and available around .
- Monthly data are published around on the last day each month, then updated after midnight on the 2nd, 3rd and 22nd of the following month.
- Month periods use monthly totals, and have additional information, including 'Years of data', 'Mean' and 'Percentile' rainfall for the selected period. Percentiles are calculated for stations with at least 20 years of data; newer stations show N/A in map popups and -1.00 in the table view. Percentiles are expressed as a number out of 100. The percentile refers to the ranking of a particular value relative to all of the values for that site.
- Elevation is listed as -999 in the table when not available
- In the tables, select Station number to open rainfall table, or elsewhere in row to show on map
- Popups from the map, and Station numbers in the table, link to more rainfall information. In the tables, periods with daily data link to the latest year of daily rainfall values, and month periods link to the full station history of monthly data.
- More about rainfall data
Weekly highlights
Cold fronts and troughs brought showers to inland, southern and eastern Australia
- From 6 to 8 October, an inland trough interacting with a low pressure system east of Australia produced generally light patchy showers in inland and the south-east of Queensland, and in north-eastern New South Wales. Weekly rainfall totals of 5 to 25 mm, locally higher, were recorded across the region.
- A series of cold fronts crossed southern Australia during the week, bringing weekly totals of 5 to 50 mm, locally higher, along parts of the coast in south-western Australia and to western Tasmania.
- Between 8 and 11 October, fronts over southern Australia connecting with an inland trough resulted in storms and showers across northern-inland areas and South Australia. Large areas through the Northern Territory, into western Queensland and through South Australia recorded weekly rainfall totals of 5 to 25 mm and lower totals were recorded in the south-east.
- The highest weekly total (at a Bureau gauge) of 89.2 mm was recorded at Mount Read (Tasmania).
- The highest daily rainfall total was 49.8 mm at Gladstone Airport in Queensland, in the 24 hours to 9 am on 8 October 2026.
Product code: IDCKGRWAR0
History
Previous rainfall reports
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